Colvin, Joseph

Jon Parritz is head of Maslon's Competitive Practices Litigation Group and also a member of its Business Litigation, Labor & Employment, ERISA Litigation and Intellectual Property Litigation Groups.

Jon has more than 25 years' experience handling complex litigation matters for individual and organizational clients in a wide variety of industries and professions, including insurance, finance, manufacturing, retailing, computer forensics and digital storage, education, telecommunications, legal, and medicine.

Jon devotes a substantial portion of his practice to litigation and counseling clients regarding issues pertaining to employment, executive compensation and benefits, wage and hour law, trade-secret protection, and enforcement of non-competition and confidentiality agreements.

Jon appears often in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, and in the courts of Hennepin, Ramsey, Anoka and Dakota counties. He has successfully argued cases before the Minnesota Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, and the Minnesota Court of Appeals and has been lead author of several briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Jon also regularly handles arbitrations before the American Arbitration Association and other arbitration forums. He is a qualified neutral under the Minnesota General Rules of Practice. 

Before joining Maslon, Jon served as Judicial Clerk to the Honorable Harry H. MacLaughlin, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota.

In 2008, Jon was named an "Attorney of the Year" by Minnesota Lawyer for his work in obtaining a precedent-setting class action verdict on behalf of hourly employees against Wal-Mart following a three-month trial.

He is AV^® Preeminent^TM rated by the Martindale-Hubbell National Law Directory peer review for ethical standards and legal ability, that organization's highest rating, and has been selected for inclusion on the Super Lawyers® list in 2001 - 2003, 2006, and 2009-2012, a designation given to only 5% of Minnesota lawyers each year.